Jazz Ain’t Boring
- 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Wednesday March 18, 2026
- The Lobby | Ace Hotel Brooklyn
- Free
Jazz Ain’t Boring is a live music experience that explores how jazz continues to shape modern sound and dance culture. Blending DJ sets with live band performance, the program moves fluidly between classic jazz recordings, contemporary interpretations, and the hip-hop, house, and soul records they inspired.
Throughout the evening, DJs and musicians trade energy—moving from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Lou Donaldson into the records that sampled them, from A Tribe Called Quest and Wu-Tang Clan to Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, and beyond.
The result is a dynamic listening and dance-floor experience that treats jazz not as museum music, but as a living foundation for groove, rhythm, and celebration.
Curated and hosted by #SampleSaleMusic members DJ Dottie Womack, Reg Wyns, Tai Allen, Emanuel Ruffler, and Ian Forde, the program highlights jazz’s enduring influence while inviting the audience to move, listen, and connect across generations of sound.
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